The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
By Richard Florida.
Description
The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy.Just as William Whyte's 1956 classic The Organization Man showed how the organizational ethos of that age permeated every aspect of life, Florida describes a society ...
ISBN(s)
1864032561, 9780465024773, 9781864032567
